Chapter II — .—Qualifications for Membership of State Legislatures

Section 6Qualifications for membership of a Legislative Council

Section 6: Qualifications for membership of a Legislative Council

6. Qualifications for membership of a Legislative Council

(1)

A person shall not be qualifled to be chosen to fill a seat in the Legislative Council of a State to be filled by election unless he is an elector for any Assembly constituency in that State.

(2)

A person shall not be qualified to be chosen to fill a seat in the Legislative Council of a State to be filled by nomination by the Governor *** unless he is ordinarily resident in the State.

Amendment notes (1)
  1. omitted . The words "or the Rajpramukh, as the case may be" omitted by the Adaptation of Laws (No. 2) Order, 1956.